John 5:2
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
KJV
ἔστιν δὲ ἐν τοῖς Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐπὶ τῇ προβατικῇ κολυμβήθρα, τὸ λεγόμενον Ἑβραϊστὶ Βηθζαθά, πέντε στοὰς ἔχουσα.
Greek NT
Est autem Jerosolymis probatica piscina, quæ cognominatur hebraice Bethsaida, quinque porticus habens.
Vulgate
Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheepgatea pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches.
ASV
Now there is at Jerusalem a pond, called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- Βηθεσδά — SBLGNT
- Βηθεσδά — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- Βηθζαθά — Westcott-Hort, Nestle-Aland 27
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Acts 21:40 — And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
- Isa 22:11 — Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
- John 7:21 — Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.
- Neh 3:1 — Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, un
- Neh 3:1 — Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, un
- Neh 3:32 — And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
- Neh 3:32 — And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
- Neh 12:39 — And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate